Frontal Lobe Seizure

Introduction

Frontal lobe seizure, terminology itself indicates about the disease that a seizure originates in the front part of the brain. Frontal lobe seizure is a kind of neurological brain disorder which tends to appear as psychiatric problem or a sleep disorder.

Symptoms

Most often seizure originates while the person is sleeping. Head and eye deviation, Pelvic thrusting, kicking, laughing, yelling, screaming, difficulty in speaking are the few symptoms of frontal lobe seizures.Seizure may last up from 30sec to 2 minutes. Causes for the disease occurrence are head trauma, genetic abnormality or the presence of tumor

Statistics

Brain wave test is carried out to detect the disorder but in most of the cases test may not be able to work out.  If medication doesn’t work out then surgery is only option to deal with the disease.The number of people with epilepsy, using prevalence numbers, ranges from 5 to 8 for every 1,000 people